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The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed a decision that found an attorney’s alleged misconduct would not have resulted in a different outcome of a man’s guilty plea for health care fraud.
Former television star and comedian Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison and must register as a sexually violent predator for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home more than a decade ago.
Lake Superior magistrate judges Kathleen Belzeski and Nanette Raduenz are being described by the local legal community as best qualified for the vacancy in Lake Superior Court, family law division.
Judge Robert Wilkins of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will be returning to his home state of Indiana to deliver the 7th Annual Birch Bayh Lecture at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
The Indiana Supreme Court has issued several orders amending rules of the court. Among them is a change that requires any appellate party to seek court permission to amend a filed appendix, and allows trusts and trustees to represent claims of less than $1,500 without counsel in small claims cases.
An Indianapolis attorney must pay a $1,000 fine for failing to appear in federal court to defend a teen being tried as an adult in an alleged gang-related killing and an armed robbery of a Broad Ripple-area pharmacy.
Brett Kavanaugh says he won’t let “false accusations drive me out of this process” as he, President Donald Trump and top Republicans mount an aggressive drive to rally the public and GOP senators behind his shaky Supreme Court nomination.
A former western Indiana school chief faces three felony counts of bribery for allegedly accepting gifts from a vendor.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Delmar Kelly v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
18A-CR-1162
Criminal. Affirms Delmar Kelly’s dealing in narcotics conviction. Finds the Hendricks Superior Court did not commit fundamental error in allowing the state to present during trial evidence of Kelly’s post-arrest, pre-Miranda silence. Also finds Kelly’s due process rights were not violated.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to a case on Monday involving a defendant’s motion to suppress evidence from a traffic stop that led to his arrest.
A South Bend attorney was reprimanded by the Indiana Supreme Court on Friday after agreeing that she violated the Rules of Professional Conduct by collecting an unreasonable fee.
Judge James R. Sweeney II of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana was sworn into office at 11 a.m. Monday as the Southern District’s newest judge since 2010.
A suspended Decatur lawyer who faces multiple disciplinary charges — including for accusations that she signed a judge’s name on a phony divorce order and sent emails posing as a deputy prosecutor — has again been suspended for failing to cooperate with investigations.
An appeals court has upheld the conviction of a man who was found guilty of robbing the same central Indiana bank twice about 15 months apart.
An indicted northwestern Indiana mayor is maintaining that prosecutors used a confidential informant to improperly know they had more time to investigate the case.
A second allegation of sexual misconduct has emerged against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a development that has further imperiled his nomination to the Supreme Court, forced the White House and Senate Republicans onto the defensive and fueled calls from Democrats to postpone further action on his confirmation.
One has realized her dream of being mayor of her hometown and the other is leading in a legal field that has typically attracted more men than women. Neither likes the spotlight, preferring to share any recognition, but both are credited with carving new paths for women and mentoring the next generation.
Indiana Court of Appeals
GO Properties, LLC, and Maxim Alliance Group, LLC v. BER Enterprises, LLC; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Nominee for Franklin American Mortgage Company; New Field, LLC; et al.
18A-PL-176
Civil plenary. Reverses the Marion Superior Court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of BER Enterprises, LLC and New Field, LLC on GO Properties’ quiet title action. Finds the trial court erred and that Stacy Phillips did not have actual or apparent authority to sell the properties on behalf of GO Properties. Remands with instructions to enter summary judgment in favor of GO Properties.
A northern Indiana city court judge was charged with four counts of judicial misconduct Friday for improperly assuming the duties of a prosecutor and wrongly approving infraction deferrals for juveniles.
The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a decision that found an “ambiguous” dissolution settlement agreement made no indication as to the father’s child support obligations and that his payments for a mortgage and car would supplement them.